NSCI 362 Environmental Change and Sustainability Week 3 Discussion 1 China's population policies
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NSCI 362 Week 3 Discussion 1 China's population policies
Week 3 D1
China's population policies
This week we discussed population growth and briefly mentioned China’s previous strategy to control population, which was to allow a couple to have only one child (with certain exceptions granted). This “one-child” policy, which began in 1978, was introduced to solve social, economic, and environmental problems in the country. China estimates this policy prevented 400 million births, with the fertility rate falling from 2.63 in 1980 to 1.61 in 2009. This policy is an important but highly controversial sustainability strategy. Many agree that reproduction is a basic human right and consequently the mandatory population control policy is in direct contrast to the social goal of sustainable development, and it may produce detrimental unintended consequences that need to be remedied. In 2013 China amended this policy to allow more than one child in a family if either of the parents are only children.
What are your thoughts on government controlled population growth and do you think there would ever come a point at which you would agree to population control in the US? Why or why not?
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